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2011 Book Awards

  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Deborah Eisenberg's The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Brando Skyhorse: The Madonnas of Echo Park
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Tomas Tranströmer
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones
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2010 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
    • Winner: Sherman Alexie's War Dances
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Brigid Pasulka's A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
  • Pulitzer Prize
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Mario Vargas Llosa
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2009 Book Awards

  • National Book Critics Circle Award
    • Winner: Roberto Bolano's 2666
  • Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
    • Winner: Michael Dahlie's A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living
  • PEN/Faulkner Award
  • Orange Prize
    • Winner: Marilynne Robinson's Home
  • Man Booker Prize
    • Winner: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall
  • Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Winner: Herta Müller
  • National Book Award
    • Winner: Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin

2009 Nobel Prize in Literature

Today Romanian-German author Herta Müller won the Nobel Prize for literature.  Amazingly, it was predicted yesterday by The Literary Saloon, based on several factors M.A. Orthofer lists.

3 comments to 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature

  • Thanks Trevor for a most interesting link.

    I think what disturbs me most about it (and this is not a comment on the blogger) is that for the second year in a row it looks like punters betting on Nobel winners have inside information that they use in making bookie bets.

    I am a gambler, but I don’t take part in betting on events where people with inside information tilt the odds. Sure looks to me that the Nobel has that problem. Which, frankly, seriously decreases the credibility of the Prize.

  • There certainly is no other explanation for how Müller’s odds increased from 50-1 to 3-1, especially when a similar, though less drastic move, occurred last year with le Clezio. However, if only you’d bet on Müller at the 50-1 phase!

    I’m betting they’ll do their best to block the leak next year. I think the reason the Saloon had as many hits as he did was because they were trying to research what went wrong this year, and his is the best report out there.

  • Click here for a Wall Street Journal article: “Discovering Herta Müller.”

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